What would be a "traditionalist" spin on Catholic Social Teaching?

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In too many cases, the news media allows labels. Truther, birther, etc. for various reasons. One, it presents a very short description of what certain groups think. I prefer actual explanations.
 
Many Traditionalist Catholics are supporters of the economic and social teachings as espoused in Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Rerum Novarum and in Pope Pius XI’s Quadragesimo anno. Both (but particularly Rerum) form the basis of the proposed economic system known as Distributism. This was in fact the primary ideology of the Catholic Worker Movement in the United States and the Democratic Labor Party in Australia.
 
PetraG said:
Until about, I don’t know, some time in the middle of the 20th century the whole of Catholic history is “traditional.”
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News flash… The Church still is “traditional”. The living tradition of the Church has always evolved as time passes… no difference now after the middle of the 20th century. Additionally, there have always been those who reject the direction of the Church in favor or their own way. See all of the various spin offs over the centuries… most recently the Old Catholics after VI and the SSPX after VII…

I think there is a splinter group building up to their exit now… I do hope not though.
 
Johann_du_Toit said:
Many Traditionalist Catholics are supporters of the economic and social teachings as espoused in Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Rerum Novarum and in Pope Pius XI’s Quadragesimo anno. Both (but particularly Rerum) form the basis of the proposed economic system known as Distributism. This was in fact the primary ideology of the Catholic Worker Movement in the United States and the Democratic Labor Party in Australia.
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I think Rerum Novarum is the most important encyclical of the last 150 years… It would be great it if was refreshed and put at the forefront of the Catholic teaching.
 
I hear things but aside from the SSPX, I know of no ‘splinter groups.’
 
That’s because there are none (unless you count the handful of Sedevacantists, whose ideology even the SSPX rejects).
 
godisgood77 said:
News flash… The Church still is “traditional”. The living tradition of the Church has always evolved as time passes… no difference now after the middle of the 20th century. Additionally, there have always been those who reject the direction of the Church in favor or their own way. See all of the various spin offs over the centuries… most recently the Old Catholics after VI and the SSPX after VII…

I think there is a splinter group building up to their exit now… I do hope not though.
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Well, yes, but there are Catholics who consider themselves more or less “traditionalist.” The OP just wanted to know if this carries over into a difference in the realm of social teaching.
 
After the First Vatican Council was held in 1870 and the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility defined, a prominent German Theologian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger formally rejected the very idea of Papal Infallibility (he also rejected the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception). He was excommunicated ans his followers started the movement known as Old Catholics. In practice they have ecumenical agreements with the Anglican Church and Lutheran Churches and they are basically Protestants in all but name.
 
There is a difference in the way Catholic ethics was taught in my grandfather’s day and in the way that it is taught today.
 
godisgood77 said:
Rerum Novarum
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That is the best place to start. I do not know of another encyclical that ever had another encyclical written just to honor its anniversary ( CENTESIMUS ANNUS by St. John Paul in 1991.) I do not think anything has ever been written by the Church since on the subject of social justice that does not quote it.
 
Outlaw abortion, contraception, divorce, and usury. Restore coverture. Repeal the part of the Civil Rights Act prohibiting pay discrimination based on gender and family status, and replace it with a law expressly requiring that heads of households be paid more.

Replace the current business deduction for wages and salary with a tax credit (covering over 50% at the bottom of the salary scale). Set the minimum threshold for income tax firmly in the middle class, and increase taxes on the rich to compensate.

Outlaw any form of sexually explicit material, and establish an agency for advance censorship of all entertainment, like the old Production Code Administration but with legal authority.

Establish a national bank designed to offer (collateralized non-recourse) loans for small businesses at the lowest feasible rate.
 
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